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The Land of 1000 Towers
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The Land of 1000 Towers:
The Land of 1000 Towers is a place of fearsome monsters and potent sorcery. Only a small portion of it has been depicted in the map below.
The land is dotted with the towers of wizards, the ruins of ancient cities, and untold riches to be taken by the brave and the lucky. All that remains of the unlucky are bleached bones, or less.
The Land of One Thousand Towers is a landscape carved by tyrannical wizards into city states. These wizards are evil madmen, prone to using human settlements as slave labor and fodder for their cruel experiments. Their only concern is for acquiring ancient secrets and arcane power. At their best, they are indifferent to their subjects, but far more often they are actively hostile.
There are three common types of city state, determined by the temperament and goals of its ruling wizard:
Denethix
An Indifferent State ruled by the tyrannical, hideous wizard, Fenethra, a horrid being twisted by magic and evil, his head is black and leathery, covered with eyes, and his hands are red taloned claws. Adventurers may move freely in this realm, under this demented madman's benign neglect.
Worthless North
This vast plain is considered worthless due to its total lack of ruined cities to plunder. The place is inhabited by unruly barbarians, savage axe beaks, and sabertooth tigers. Few wizards make their home here, as the barbarians make terrible slaves.
The name of this place varies depending where the speaker is relative to it – southerners refer to it as the Worthless North, easterners as the Worthless West, and so on.
Forbidden Vale
They say that no man who enters the Forbidden Vale has ever returned – which begs the question of who started all the rumors of crystalline trees and multidimensional apes that stalk between the glittering trunks.
Eater of Cities
This huge lake is so named due to the many ruins of towns and cities that can be seen beneath its waters. Villages built next to its shore are inevitably sunken beneath its waters within a few seasons, the residents missing and never heard from again – strangely, the lake shore never appears to have moved at all after these events.
The Feasting Trees
While the trees provide some refuge from nearby wizards for the villagers who make this place their home, they have to contend with the predation of carnivorous trees instead. In addition to these verdant terrors, goblins, moktars, deinonychus, and phase tigers are common dangers among the Feasting Trees.
Ceratopsian Plains
These vast prairies are home to many large herd animals – cattle, bison, horses, protoceratops, and triceratops farther east. These large animals unfortunately attract large predators, such as axe beaks, tyrannosaurs, and bulettes, making the Ceratopsian Plains an extremely dangerous place for the tribes of huntsmen that make their home there.
The Pit
The Pit is spoken of only in hushed whispers by the hunters who live in the Ceratopsian Plains. When the triceratops grow old and weak, something draws them to the Pit, and they throw themselves into the smoking hole. For hunters tracking such beasts, it is deeply unwise to make camp near the Pit at night – quickly crawling things have been known to spew forth in the wan moonlight, and few have seen this black horde and lived.
Livid Fens
This fetid marsh is so named due to the bruisedlooking fleshy redandpurple thornstalks that choke the place. Hunting parties from Denethix commonly travel the River Effluent down here, seeking to make themselves rich with a successful froghemoth hunt – the blubber of such creatures may be rendered down to the finest oil. More often than not, the hunters become the hunted, and the froghemoths thrive on the steady stream of two legged prey. Other threats known to stalk the fens are the terrible sail gators (known to scholars as dimetrodons), acid spewing dragons, and the occasional catobleas.
Saurian Lowlands
The soaring pines of the lowlands are infested with allosaurs, who hunt the stegosaurs, hadrosaurs, and iguanodons of the forest.
The allosaurs are not the only threats to be found. Moktar tribes also abound in these woods, constantly harassing the few walled human villages, and gorillapedes ambush travelers, springing forth from tunnels excavated beneath the forest floor.
Western Interior Sea
The only place more dangerous than the Land of One Thousand Towers would be the Western Interior Sea. This body of water is home to all manner of aquatic nightmare: liopleurodons, megalodons, dragon turtles, xiphactinus, and worse, if fishermen's tales are to be believed.
Offshore Arcology
A massive structure of steel somehow still stands in the deep waters of the Western Interior Sea, supporting a small domed city. Fishermen who have ventured near and avoided fouling their rudders in the debris field around the platform report men and pale almostmen peering curiously at them from inside the dome.
Lanthanide Wastes
This rocky badland is famed for its ready supply of lanthanide elements, for those prospectors with the courage to search them out. The place is haunted by viciously savage insectmen, who enthusiastically hunt the "tasty maggots that walk on two legs."
The stark environment of these badlands somehow supports many giantsized creatures: giant fusillade beetles, giant gila monsters, and giant tarantulas are common.
The Land of 1000 Towers is a place of fearsome monsters and potent sorcery. Only a small portion of it has been depicted in the map below.
The land is dotted with the towers of wizards, the ruins of ancient cities, and untold riches to be taken by the brave and the lucky. All that remains of the unlucky are bleached bones, or less.
The Land of One Thousand Towers is a landscape carved by tyrannical wizards into city states. These wizards are evil madmen, prone to using human settlements as slave labor and fodder for their cruel experiments. Their only concern is for acquiring ancient secrets and arcane power. At their best, they are indifferent to their subjects, but far more often they are actively hostile.
There are three common types of city state, determined by the temperament and goals of its ruling wizard:
a. Slave State. Humans living in these city states are enslaved and closely supervised by the wizard's minions.
No trade is possible, and visitors will either be killed or enslaved.
b. Terror State. Humans are nominally free, but the ruling wizard will frequently raid settlements, to gather subjects for his experiments, or extort tribute of some sort. Trade is possible with these settlements, but they will typically not have much to offer.
c. Indifferent State. This is the best that life in the Land of One Thousand Towers has to offer. The ruling wizard's pursuit of knowledge doesn't currently require human subjects, so nearby settlements are left to their own devices. Should the wizard ever feel threatened, however, reprisals will be swift and brutal. Small towns prosper near the towers of this sort of wizard, and trade is prevalent with other similar towns.
No trade is possible, and visitors will either be killed or enslaved.
b. Terror State. Humans are nominally free, but the ruling wizard will frequently raid settlements, to gather subjects for his experiments, or extort tribute of some sort. Trade is possible with these settlements, but they will typically not have much to offer.
c. Indifferent State. This is the best that life in the Land of One Thousand Towers has to offer. The ruling wizard's pursuit of knowledge doesn't currently require human subjects, so nearby settlements are left to their own devices. Should the wizard ever feel threatened, however, reprisals will be swift and brutal. Small towns prosper near the towers of this sort of wizard, and trade is prevalent with other similar towns.
Denethix
An Indifferent State ruled by the tyrannical, hideous wizard, Fenethra, a horrid being twisted by magic and evil, his head is black and leathery, covered with eyes, and his hands are red taloned claws. Adventurers may move freely in this realm, under this demented madman's benign neglect.
Worthless North
This vast plain is considered worthless due to its total lack of ruined cities to plunder. The place is inhabited by unruly barbarians, savage axe beaks, and sabertooth tigers. Few wizards make their home here, as the barbarians make terrible slaves.
The name of this place varies depending where the speaker is relative to it – southerners refer to it as the Worthless North, easterners as the Worthless West, and so on.
Forbidden Vale
They say that no man who enters the Forbidden Vale has ever returned – which begs the question of who started all the rumors of crystalline trees and multidimensional apes that stalk between the glittering trunks.
Eater of Cities
This huge lake is so named due to the many ruins of towns and cities that can be seen beneath its waters. Villages built next to its shore are inevitably sunken beneath its waters within a few seasons, the residents missing and never heard from again – strangely, the lake shore never appears to have moved at all after these events.
The Feasting Trees
While the trees provide some refuge from nearby wizards for the villagers who make this place their home, they have to contend with the predation of carnivorous trees instead. In addition to these verdant terrors, goblins, moktars, deinonychus, and phase tigers are common dangers among the Feasting Trees.
Ceratopsian Plains
These vast prairies are home to many large herd animals – cattle, bison, horses, protoceratops, and triceratops farther east. These large animals unfortunately attract large predators, such as axe beaks, tyrannosaurs, and bulettes, making the Ceratopsian Plains an extremely dangerous place for the tribes of huntsmen that make their home there.
The Pit
The Pit is spoken of only in hushed whispers by the hunters who live in the Ceratopsian Plains. When the triceratops grow old and weak, something draws them to the Pit, and they throw themselves into the smoking hole. For hunters tracking such beasts, it is deeply unwise to make camp near the Pit at night – quickly crawling things have been known to spew forth in the wan moonlight, and few have seen this black horde and lived.
Livid Fens
This fetid marsh is so named due to the bruisedlooking fleshy redandpurple thornstalks that choke the place. Hunting parties from Denethix commonly travel the River Effluent down here, seeking to make themselves rich with a successful froghemoth hunt – the blubber of such creatures may be rendered down to the finest oil. More often than not, the hunters become the hunted, and the froghemoths thrive on the steady stream of two legged prey. Other threats known to stalk the fens are the terrible sail gators (known to scholars as dimetrodons), acid spewing dragons, and the occasional catobleas.
Saurian Lowlands
The soaring pines of the lowlands are infested with allosaurs, who hunt the stegosaurs, hadrosaurs, and iguanodons of the forest.
The allosaurs are not the only threats to be found. Moktar tribes also abound in these woods, constantly harassing the few walled human villages, and gorillapedes ambush travelers, springing forth from tunnels excavated beneath the forest floor.
Western Interior Sea
The only place more dangerous than the Land of One Thousand Towers would be the Western Interior Sea. This body of water is home to all manner of aquatic nightmare: liopleurodons, megalodons, dragon turtles, xiphactinus, and worse, if fishermen's tales are to be believed.
Offshore Arcology
A massive structure of steel somehow still stands in the deep waters of the Western Interior Sea, supporting a small domed city. Fishermen who have ventured near and avoided fouling their rudders in the debris field around the platform report men and pale almostmen peering curiously at them from inside the dome.
Lanthanide Wastes
This rocky badland is famed for its ready supply of lanthanide elements, for those prospectors with the courage to search them out. The place is haunted by viciously savage insectmen, who enthusiastically hunt the "tasty maggots that walk on two legs."
The stark environment of these badlands somehow supports many giantsized creatures: giant fusillade beetles, giant gila monsters, and giant tarantulas are common.
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